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Toyota Century is equipped with furnishings that can be used for either personal or business use like the writing table ... will making it big later this month at the 45th Tokyo Motor show and is scheduled to showcase the production version of its Toyota ... ( read original story ...)

China may have the clear lead in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the region, but Japan’s government, realising how vital the sector is to its economic future, has intervened in the hopes of levelling the playing field. ( read original story ...)

Khanh Hoa (VNA) – The “Meeting Japan – South Central Region” conference took place in Nha Trang city, the central province of Khanh Hoa on October 6 to discuss bilateral cooperative prospects in the near future. Attending the event were ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday that his government fully supports the U.S. stance on pressuring North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, with all options on the table. In a televised debate Sunday among leaders of major political ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike does not expect her new conservative party to pick a candidate for prime minister during the campaign for the Oct. 22 election, leaving the door open to eventually backing a lawmaker from Prime Minister Shinzo ... ( read original story ...)

The central banks of the Philippines and Japan on Friday signed their amended third bilateral swap agreement (BSA), a stopgap measure for short-term liquidity problems. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Bank of Japan, which acted as the agent ... ( read original story ...)

A new Japanese political party led by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike reveals its policy attack plan saying it wants to end nuclear power in the country. Ryan Brooks reports. She may not be aiming for Japanese leader Shinzo Abe's job just yet, but on Friday ... ( read original story ...)

Business Insider deputy executive editor Matt Turner speaks to David Hunt, president and CEO of PGIM, who says that Japan is at the top of his firm's list in terms of international opportunities. He notes that there are large institutional investors there ... ( read original story ...)

Japan may be Airbnb’s most popular country in Asia, but Tujia has a distinct advantage over Airbnb in terms of appealing to Chinese travelers who are arriving to Japan en masse. Tujia.com, China’s largest vacation rental platform, seeks to boost Japan ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese advertising firm Dentsu has been fined for making ... "You can see why the occasional death might be considered just a comparatively small cost of doing business, especially when contrasted with the labor costs that can be saved by having people ... ( read original story ...)

Miwa Sado died of overwork in 2013. ANN News/YouTube A political journalist in Japan died from overwork, her employer has revealed four years after her death. Miwa Sado died of congestive heart failure in 2013 after working 159 hours and 37 minutes of ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's government has been trying desperately over the past ... At the Tokyo-based nursing care business Saint-Works, employees wear purple capes that display the time they should leave the office — an effort to erase all doubt when the day is over. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - A new party led by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said on Friday it hopes to pursue policies to revive the economy that do not rely excessively on fiscal and monetary stimulus steps in a party platform unveiled ahead of a national election ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Benchmark TOCOM rubber futures inched up on Friday as investors adjusted positions ahead of key U.S. jobs data later the day and a three-day weekend in Japan, with the contract remaining on track for its first weekly gain in a ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - A new party led by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike unveiled its election platform on Friday, pledging to prevent a planned sales tax hike and debate revising Japan's pacifist constitution. Koike's Party of Hope, which is challenging Prime ... ( read original story ...)

The pop-up bar will sell beer, sake and cocktails. Getty/iStock Amazon is opening a bar in Tokyo that will sell wine, sake and cocktails. For 10 days, the web retailer will run a bar in Tokyo’s glitzy Ginza district to promote alcoholic products sold ... ( read original story ...)